The trees are known as Monkey Puzzle trees. Not indigenous here, but common in australia. No one seems to know how they got here. Only that they have been here for decades. The trees have been there. People know that theyre there. You know, it was a freak accident. Youre taking your chances under a lot of different trees, especially in the drought. This type of tree can produce tree pods up to 35 centimeters in diameter and weighing as much as 40 pounds. The one that hit mace was the equivalent of a bowling ball. He is now suing the park service and wants something done before anyone else is injured. At a bare minimum, i think the park owed a duty of care to all visitors to warn of this known danger, including posting signage around the grove of trees advising of the risk of falling seed pods. Reporter now the lawsuit calls for the trees to either be cut down or maintained in a more strict manner. They are also seeking 5 million in damages. The u. S. Attorneys office is handling this m
Were asking people the really stay off the roads, stay in your house if you can. Until things at least lighten up, just be careful out there. Brandon fires say be aware. The hazard could be above you. You have to be wary when youre out shoveling your driveway and helping neighbors, kids in the yard, things like that. You have to understand the weight of the snow on the branches and the wires poses a significant hard. Brandon at last check 20 of the houses near canton are still without power. Police are asking everyone to only call 911 in case of an emergency. Live in canton, bran down gunnoe. 7news night team. The green line had to be suspended for hours after a big branch fell on some tracks. Fallen trees also created a power struggle, taking down power lines and making a mess on streets and sidewalks. Night teams tim caputo in Chestnut Hill with a look at some damage there. This is one of the worst ones weve seen. You can see the snow caked on the side of that tree, a big reason weve
Leave them in their lock. I sue serio patricia, my granddaughter, teddy she was going to this waldorff school for awhile, you know, kind of fancy pants. Sounds fans. I granola eating, they would not let them have any technology around them, and they d they signed a form. It says even when you go home, no technology. No ipads. Really . They signed it, then broke the rules within 24 hours because she wanted her little ipad. I feel like schools are now putting in laptops ipads in schools. By the way on the left there, thats teddy. And those are her stepchildren. Siblings . Like i said. She already has children. She four years old. What happened . No those are her siblings, step siblings. And ill be seeing them this weekend, going out to San Francisco. Oh, for memorial day. Yes. Going to barbeque. We will be barbequing, hiking. Are you going to be what about technology. We will have a lot of Technology Matter of fact. Thats amazing sue. I have little cousin, around the same age as teddy he
Hole, wyoming resort. He triggered an avalanche. A big avalanche. A big moving, turning, monster. Fellow skiers tried c. P. R. To save him. He was outside the resort boundary in the back country where the thrill are bigger, but so is the risk. You literally have seconds to try and get out of the way. He grew up in Southern California and moved to the bay area to attend uc berkeley and became the captain of cals ski team and graduated with a degree in economic and public policy. The family said he lived life with a full heart. He loved his family, his skiing buddies and San Francisco. His friends are expressing their grief on instagram saying today is a sad day in the mountains. Mike kazanjys death came during the second back country avalanche this week. In colorado, a man watched his brother get buried alive and he could barely breathe if ten minutes cemented in snow. Get me out as for mike kazanjy he worked at hotwire but took time off to travel. It appears the legal battle over care
Bill, another wet one out there. Looks like the dreariest week of spring and it continues today. Rain, fog, and low clouds. Look at the fog in the valley. A view from the french manor. The visibility is coming down especially delaware and south jersey. You can see it in the air in cape may, a live view from the Marquis De Lafayette Hotel. Its been damp. Showers just offshore. You see some heavy downpours approaching atlantic city. Look whats calling north and west. Heavy rain in upper Montgomery County, eastern berks county and into lehigh county. Valleys getting heavy rain. Newhanover has seen it. To the west of milford and bucks county and allentown had moderate showers. There is potential for flooding with those showers first thing this morning. The temperatures holding in the 70s right in the low 70s for the i95 corridor. But well see 80s this afternoon. And we will likely see some storms, could be around for the ball game this evening as the phillies meet the cubs. Shower, 69 at 7